Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy in the Hands of a Chest Physician

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Liver biopsy using transesophageal bronchoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-B-FNA) has never been described before and biopsies of infradiaphragmatic lesions using this technique are not considered to be standard. A patient suspected for primary lung cancer with multiple lesions in the liver was referred to our department. We conducted bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound-guided (EBUS) biopsy from several enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. Thereafter, we conducted EUS-B-FNA from a lesion in the left liver lobe. Pathology showed that the liver lesion represented a metastasis from a pulmonary adenocarcinoma. Bronchoscopy and EBUS samples were not able to establish diagnosis. We hereby demonstrated that a diagnostic EUS-B-FNA from a liver metastasis in a patient with lung cancer is possible. This underlines that chest physicians should not forget the esophagus when staging lung cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:92

Enthalten in:

Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases - 92(2016), 1 vom: 10., Seite 53-5

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fally, Markus [VerfasserIn]
Nessar, Rafi [VerfasserIn]
Behrendt, Nille [VerfasserIn]
Clementsen, Paul Frost [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 13.09.2017

Date Revised 13.09.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1159/000446924

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM261280910